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Inscription

upper center in black ink: FORMICA CAMELVS.; right center in gold: IV.; animals in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink.
Facing page: upper center in brown ink: Redditur Arboribus, florens revirentibus aetas: / Ergo non Homini, quod fuit ante redit.;lower center in brown ink: MALA AVREA in lectis argenteis: qui loquitur / Verbum in tempore suo.pro:25. (“To speak a word in due time is like apples of gold on beds of silver.” Proverbs 25:11) (Latin Vulgate Bible)

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

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